Pictures
with Jesse Jackson,
Ramsey Clark,
Jane Fonda, Ted Kennedy, Ho Chi Minh's bust, etc., including a timeline of events.
Audio, too,
of John Kerry admitting he committed war atrocities. And from Meet
the Press with TIM RUSSERT: "You committed atrocities." |
Fonda told the world press
that U.S. prisoners of war were being well treated and not tortured. Her outrageous
claims were later exposed when American POWs were finally freed and told of years
of agonizing tortures and inhuman treatment. Fonda responded, not with an apology,
but with an accusation calling our returned POWs "liars and hypocrites."
Fonda's actions stirred up a firestorm in America, prompting nationwide demands that
she be tried for treason. |
"South Vietnam falls to the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong. After thirty years
of revolutionary civil wars and repeated conflicts against colonial powers, peace
comes to Vietnam." --PBS
Peace? |
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April 22, 1971 -- John Kerry testifies . . . before
the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs . . . that American soldiers had "personally
raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human
genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at
civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan . . ." and
that these acts were "not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day
basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command." Kerry also
accuses the U.S. military of "rampant" racism and of being "more guilty
than any other body" of violating the Geneva Conventions . . . ."
Former POW, Senator John McCain said, "These people, Ramsey Clark, Tom Hayden,
and Jane Fonda, were on the side of the North Vietnamese. I think she only saw eight
selected prisoners. I was beaten unmercifully for refusing to meet with the visitors."
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July 8 - 22, 1972 -- Jane Fonda visits Hanoi, where
she makes numerous radio broadcasts to American military personnel, encouraging mutiny
and desertion while repeatedly claiming that the United States is committing war
crimes in Vietnam. Fonda also visits American prisoners, reporting on the air that
they are being "well cared for" and that they wished to convey their "sense
of disgust of the war and their shame for what they have been asked to do."
Upon leaving North Vietnam, Fonda accepts from her hosts a
ring made from the wreckage of a downed American plane.
Mr. Kerry tells Democratic audiences at campaign appearances
that he will be able to stand up to Mr. Bush on the issue. He frequently cites Mr.
Bush's appearance on the deck of the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln as misleading voters.
"I know something about aircraft carriers for real,"
he says.
Rep. Sam Johnson, Texas Republican, who spent nearly seven
years in a prisoner-of-war camp in Vietnam, said yesterday the photograph of
Mr. Kerry with Miss Fonda will hurt him nevertheless.
"I think it symbolizes how two-faced
he is, talking about his war reputation, which is questionable on the one hand, and
then coming out against our veterans who were fighting over there on the other,"
Mr. Johnson said.
Mr. Johnson recalled that his North Vietnamese captors played
recordings of Miss Fonda telling U.S. troops to give up the war. "Seeing this
picture of Kerry with her at antiwar demonstrations in the United States just
makes me want to throw up."
--Washington
Times
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Late 1972 -- The U.S Congress votes to eliminate
funding for military operations in Indochina.
January, 1973 -- The Nixon Administration signs the
Treaty of Paris.
February and March, 1973 -- American prisoners of war
are released by North Vietnam. They report having been starved, beaten and tortured
by their captors, in an effort to make them sign documents in which they admitted
to committing war crimes.
April, 1973 -- Jane Fonda calls the freed American prisoners
"hypocrites and pawns," insisting that, "Tortured men do not march
smartly off planes, salute the flag, and kiss their wives. They are liars. I also
want to say that these men are not heroes."
Fall, 1974 -- North Vietnam initiates minor probing
attacks into South Vietnam, in violation of the Paris treaty. There is no military
response by the United States.
Early 1975 -- North Vietnam launches a massive invasion
of South Vietnam.
April 30, 1975 -- Saigon falls [South Vietnam].
1975 - 1979 -- Communist regimes in southeast Asia murder
an estimated two million Cambodians, as well as tens of thousands of South Vietnamese.
One million South Vietnamese are imprisoned in "re-education camps," and
hundreds of thousands die there. An additional two million flee the country, with
many drowning in the attempt.
More
Timeline.
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